Detroit Pistons star Blake Griffin has weighed in on the controversy surrounding New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. According to Griffin, Brees and the Saints should sign Colin Kaepernick to truly make amends for the insensitive comments earlier blurted out by the New Orleans star quarterback. Griffin took to Twitter to propose his rather revolutionary […]
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• Roger Goodell: NFL was 'wrong' for not listening to players about racism

One player Goodell didn't mention was former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick....2020

• What does the league’s new position mean for Colin Kaepernick?

The video published by Commissioner Roger Goodell on Friday regarding the league’s position on racism and peaceful protests represents Goodell’s finest moment in nearly 14 years on the job. But it also raises the stakes on a couple of open issues that now need to be addressed in light of the league’s new position. “We, [more]...2020

The 2017 season ended without the Browns winning a game. It began with Browns coach Hue Jackson wanting to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Appearing on ESPN Radio in Cleveland, Jackson said that he wanted to sign Kaepernick after Kaepernick became a free agent in March 2017. “I wanted him,” Jackson said Friday. “It just didn’t [more]...2020

• Akiem Hicks: I stood for the anthem because I feared being blackballed

Bears defensive lineman Akiem Hicks says many more NFL players would have joined Colin Kaepernick in kneeling for the national anthem, but they worried about losing their jobs. Hicks said he believes the majority of players who stood for the anthem were thinking that if they didn’t, it would end their careers. And he was [more]...2020

We already have our first NFL player who isn’t prepared to go along with the advice of President Donald Trump. Washington running back Adrian Peterson said he definitely planned to kneel during the national anthem this year, following the protest cue of Colin Kaepernick, who knelt to protest police brutality and racial inequality. “Years ago, [more]...2020

TNT’s “Inside the NBA” returned to the airwaves on Thursday, but the crew was not their usual jovial selves as they discussed systematic racism amid the George Floyd protests happening across the nation. As part of this conversation, Charles Barkley opened up about his thoughts on Drew Brees’ recent comments pertaining to Colin Kaepernick taking […]
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• Colin Kaepernick kneeling timeline: How protests during the national anthem started a movement in the NFL

Colin Kaepernick's controversial decision to kneel during the national anthem in 2016 became a movement for NFL players fighting racial injustice. Here is the timeline of crossfire of praise and ridicule aimed at the quarterback over the last four years....2020

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Colin Kaepernick injury and suspension

Over the weekend, a former NFL employee publicly criticized the league’s handling of the Colin Kaepernick situation. Now, a current NFL employee has spoken out against the league’s treatment of Kaepernick. “It’s unfortunate and it’s sad and it’s a black eye on our league, no question about it,” Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson [more]...2020

• Duane Brown: George Floyd’s murder shows that no progress has been made

The movement started by Colin Kaepernick and picked up by players like Seahawks tackle Duane Brown was aimed at bringing attention to, and ultimately reversing, the mistreatment of black and brown Americans by law-enforcement authorities. In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd on Monday night in Minneapolis, Brown admitted that, despite their efforts, [more]...2020

Peter Schrager reports that Tua Tagovailoa's hip injury will 'absolutely hurt' his draft stock if he leaves Alabama. He also details what he's hearing from around the league after Colin Kaepernick's workout for NFL teams....2019

Was the settlement between Colin Kaepernick and the NFL the first step in the quarterback’s return to the field? It sounds like that may be the case. Kaepernick’s lawyer Mark Geragos was on CNN Saturday and predicted that a team will step up and sign his client. He named the Carolina Panthers, whose starter Cam Newton is coming off shoulder surgery, as one contender. He mentioned the New England P...2019

• Former NBA commissioner David Stern: NFL should have suspended Colin Kaepernick

Stern says NBA wouldn't have kept Kaepernick out of league...2019

• David Stern rips NFL for not suspending Colin Kaepernick

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern oversaw the last remnants of an archaic Association that failed to meet the expectations of and ever-changing United States populous. Once Stern was replaced by Adam Silver in that role back in 2014, things changed big time for the NBA. The modern league backs players who speak out on the divisive issues of the day. It’s a more liberal view — believing players c...2019

The league has a quarterback problem — namely that there aren’t 32 capable enough quarterbacks for all 32 franchises to be competitive — with Colin Kaepernick being a far better option for numerous teams than the signal callers they currently have on their roster. Here are 10 teams that Kaepernick would improve, both in terms of on-field performance and media interest. Washington Redskins It has b...2018

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Colin Kaepernick trade, contract, salary rumors

• Hue Jackson says he wanted Colin Kaepernick in 2017

The 2017 season ended without the Browns winning a game. It began with Browns coach Hue Jackson wanting to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Appearing on ESPN Radio in Cleveland, Jackson said that he wanted to sign Kaepernick after Kaepernick became a free agent in March 2017. “I wanted him,” Jackson said Friday. “It just didn’t [more]...2020

Akiem Hicks could have said a lot when asked about Colin Kaepernick’s continued unemployment. Instead, he needed only four words to make his point. “We signed Mike Glennon,” the Bears defensive lineman said Wednesday, via Jason Lieser of the Chicago Sun-Times. The Bears signed Glennon to a three-year, $45 million contract with $18.5 million guaranteed [more]...2020

Former NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart has written a column in which he admits that a team should have signed Colin Kaepernick in 2017 and urging the Vikings to do so now. Current NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy has provided this statement to PFT in response to a request for comment. “Colin is a free agent,” McCarthy [more]...2020

Kaepernick isn't the only one sticking up for what is right, either. As a result of George Floyd's death, other athletes have spoke out against racial injustice and police brutality in support of Floyd and his familly....2020

Colin Kaepernick still wants to play football. Of course, that comes with a caveat. Kaepernick wants to play football, but he wants to do so at the right price — at least according to XFL commissioner Oliver Luck, who revealed earlier this week that Kap had some pretty unrealistic salary demands for the startup league. But salary didn’t come up on Thursday when Kaepernick sat down with USA Today's...2020

While the XFL is partially meant as a showcase for players who want to get back into the NFL, there are some high-profile players who are not in the league at the moment. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick is one of them, but according to XFL commissioner Oliver Luck, the two sides did talk. Luck told NPR’s Michel Martin that the quarterback’s salary demands did not fit with the league. “We gave it some...2020

The XFL debuted this week with limited star power. Which could make it harder for the XFL to sustain an initial burst of rubbernecking from sports audiences who currently have limited sports to audience. One star player that isn’t in the XFL (or the NFL) is Colin Kaepernick. XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck recently explained the [more]...2020

• Jay-Z, Beyonce, Blue Ivy do not stand for national anthem at Super Bowl

Jay-Z famously said upon partnering with the NFL that “we have moved past kneeling.” Considering he believes that is the case, his actions on Sunday were noteworthy. TMZ Sports shared video of Jay-Z, wife Beyonce, and daughter Blue Ivy all seated at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami during the playing of the national anthem before the Super Bowl. The video shows nearly everyone else around them standing ...2020

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• NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addresses Colin Kaepernick workout

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell held a press conference on Wednesday to discuss a number of different issues. One of the topics broached by reporters was Colin Kaepernick’s workout in Atlanta last month. It has obviously been a point of contention in the weeks since Kaepernick cancelled the NFL-mandated workout and set up shop at a nearby high school. In talking about it Wednesday, Goodell noted th...2019

Colin Kaepernick will be inducted into his high school’s hall of fame later this year.The honor comes 12 years post-graduation, five years after nearly leading the 49ers to a Super Bowl, and one year after the former quarterback was named GQ’s Citizen of the Year.Kaepernick leads Pitman High School’s — located in Turlock, California — inaugural hall of fame celebration. The ex-NFL athlete is join...2018

Colin Kaepernick is undoubtedly a polarizing figure within and well beyond the world of sports. But that is not stopping his high school from making the former three-sport star one of the inaugural members of its hall of fame. Pitman High School in Turlock, Calif. made the announcement of Kaepernick’s inclusion in part with an Instagram post in which he is depicted playing football, basketball and...2018

Colin Kaepernick hasn’t retired, and now the league-owned website properly reflects that fact. NFL.com has changed Kaepernick’s designation from “retired” to “UFA,” presumably after the incorrect verbiage was brought to light on Friday night. “Thank you to everyone who held the @NFL accountable for falsely reporting that Colin ‘retired’ on thei...2020

• Redesigned NFL.com lists Colin Kaepernick as “retired”

The NFL recently redesigned its website. And the new version of the pages assigned to each current and historical player has created a bit of a stir: Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is listed as “retired.” Kaepernick’s girlfriend, Nessa, has reacted strongly to the characterization. “The @NFL @nflcommish @NFLPA lying on their website claiming @Kaepernick7 ‘r...2020

• Jay-Z, Beyonce, Blue Ivy do not stand for national anthem at Super Bowl

LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick are among the high-profile athletes who have taken to social media to voice their outrage over the death of George Floyd, who died Monday night while in Minneapolis police custody....2020

• Brian Flores: People with loud opinions on Colin Kaepernick are silent on George Floyd

Dolphins coach Brian Flores has become the first NFL coach to issue a statement on the murder of George Floyd. And it is a powerful one. The statement, provided to ESPN.com, points out the inconsistency between those who have loud opinions on issues like Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protest and devices for incentivizing the hiring of [more]...2020

Colin Kaepernick plans to release a memoir through his Kaepernick Publishing, the company he founded, "to tell the story of my evolution, and the events that led me to protest systemic oppression."...2020

• Washington signed receiver from Colin Kaepernick workout

The Colin Kaepernick workout worked. Sort of. The quarterback at the center of three years of controversy hasn’t found employment, but one of his receivers from his recent Georgia workout has. Via Sam Fortier of the Washington Post, wide receiver Jordan Veasy (who caught the viral deep ball during the workout) was signed to the [more]...2019

Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who possibly has political aspirations, may be rethinking his future career choices after jumping onto a third rail with both feet on Wednesday. Brees, at a critical moment in American history that has caused many to reconsider the message arising from the anthem protests launched by Colin Kaepernick in 2016, has [more]...2020

• Colin Kaepernick speaks: On his new memoir and why he still wants to play in the NFL

Colin Kaepernick explains in a rare interview why he is writing a memoir and starting a publishing company, and what it means for NFL playing career.
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• Tom Brady to the XFL? Wanna bet?

The XFL has already stated it’s going after big-time players, but could the upstart league really lure guys like Tom Brady, Antonio Brown or Dez Bryant? Maybe not, but that’s now something you can bet on. The latest odds released by SportsBettingDime.com show NFL players (former and current) like Josh Gordon, Chad Johnson and Vontaze Burfict are seen as more likely signees than Brady. Here’s a run...2020

The NFL-arranged workout for free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick, an event that on the league's part seems disingenuous at best and a total sham at worst, is scheduled for Saturday. Here's everything to know, including the teams expected to send representatives....2019

• Opinion: Colin Kaepernick is about to get what he deserves: a chance

The end may be near for the 3-year-old saga of Colin Kaepernick as the quarterback is scheduled to work out for teams on Saturday.
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There has been speculation that Colin Kaepernick must have received an enormous amount of money from the NFL to agree to settle his collusion case against the league. But the quarterback was not paid as much as many people think. Andrew Beaton of The Wall Street Journal reports that Kaepernick and Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid received less than $10 million combined in their settlement with t...2019

Kaepernick's lawyer predicted almost two weeks ago that a team would sign his client...2019

• Report: Kaepernick, Reid settlements may be less than some believe

Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid reached a settlement with the NFL in their collusion case last week, leading to speculation of a big payout. However, speculation that the settlement amount landed in the range of $60M to $80M is incorrect, according to a source with knowledge of the situation who spoke with Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. There are indications that Kaepernick and Reid did not lan...2019

Colin Kaepernick and the NFL announced on Friday that they have settled the collusion case the quarterback and his former teammate, Eric Reid, had filed against the league. The news is nothing short of shocking, and the acceptance of a settlement is a massive disappointment for those who believed Kaepernick was taking a stand against the league. Kaepernick and attorney Mark Geragos filed a lawsuit...2019

Buffalo Bills rookie quarterback Josh Allen is still a pretty big project. He’s completed less than 53 percent of his passes in seven starts this season and is still about as inaccurate as they come. But Allen’s frame and physical ability is what made him a top-10 pick in this past April’s draft. The Bills are banking on Allen progressing leaps and bounds on the field. In what might be a sign of t...2018

The Carolina Panthers pretty much threw the entire NFL for a loop on Thursday by announcing that they have signed former Pro Bowl safety Eric Reid.On the field, Reid is a massive upgrade for the Panthers. Off the field, he brings years of national anthem protests and a close relationship with Colin Kaepernick with him to Carolina.Still in the midst of claiming league owners have colluded to keep h...2018